Beds

NOTES: Originally a Jacobean manor, Claydon House was rebuilt to designs by Sir Thomas Robinson for Ralph, 2nd Lord Verney, from 1768. Luke Lightfoot was responsible for the wood-carving of the Rocco interiors and parquetry staircase. Florence Nightgale was a relation of the Verneys and a regular visitor to the house.

NOTES: The house was built by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, between 1456 and 1486. It passed into Royal possession in 1537 during the Dissolution. In 1566, Elizabeth I presented the house and estate to her cousin Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, who substantially remodelled the medieval palace between 1603 and 1608. The King's Bedroom is traditionally supposed to have been decorated for the reception of King James I, but the bed and complementary furnishings have subsequently be correctly dated to later in the 17th century.

NOTES: The house was commissioned by Sir Edward Phelips in 1588 and was completed in 1601. The architect is thought to have been William Arnold.

NOTES: This was a development of six terrace houses each with only a 12-foot frontage. The architects, who occupied two of the houses, employed Le Corbusier's 'Le Modulor' system of proportions based upon the Golden Mean.

NOTES: The special built-in furniture and room dividers were designed by James Gowan and made by the Schreiber furniture company.

NOTES: Wells Coates converted this London pied a terre into his studio-home. The small space was zoned by the use of built-in furniture. The main feature was the 'hearth scene', which was a bookcase on one side and a back-rest for cushions on the other. It has since been destroyed.

NOTES: This is now the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel.

NOTES: Peter Womersley designed the house for himself, but also saw it as a potential model for mass production.